Why is Swedish metal so melodic? That's the question we propose in Ep. 13 on Loudwire's ongoing video series, "50 Years of Heavy Metal." Akerfeldt and the members of In Flames recall a nationally ...

Congratulations (I think)! You've decided to cross over into the heavier realm of metal, where abstract lyrics and violent imagery are discussed as readily as the weather and there are more sub-genres ...

A classic blueprint for the genre. This style has been mimicked by countless bands since and was gateway into ’90s death metal for our generation. One of the most sorrowful records from the ’90s. From ...

Lists Blackened Melodic Death Metal: A History Lesson These bands embody all the best things about metal: catchy riffs and great songwriting, effective use of melody to create a narrative structure, ...

Metalcore is an extremely popular genre today, but for some reason, the genre’s founding ancestor, melodic death-metal, hasn’t really crossed over into the “scene”—and there’s just no excuse for that.

Last week, I wrote an open letter to metalcore discussing our falling out (and tipping my hat to excellent metalcore dudes Mercury Switch). What this glazed over was my main beef with it and why I’ve ...

“Hey, my friend and I forgot our IDs do you think if we gave you money you could buy us some drinks?” some rando teenager asked me after the closing of Oni’s set, the prog/djent metal band from Canada ...

It goes without saying that Nita Strauss knows a thing or two about good guitar riffs, and recently the Alice Cooper electric guitar hero sat down with Guitar World to run through the five riffs that ...

Arch Enemy have released stamping new single Blood Dynasty. The track is taken from the international melodic death metal force’s album of the same name, due out on March 28 via Century Media. Watch ...

Over the past 15 years, a slow, steady swarm of local extreme metal bands have codified the OC/Long Beach music scene, taking things to the next level while still maintaining a tightly knit community.